Born: 1924 Male
Place of Birth: Kazan River area
Resides: Baker Lake
Sculpture, Prints, Drawings

Barnabus Arnasungaaq is married to graphic artist and carver Fanny
Arngnakik. Their sons David and Norman are carvers as well.

Bayat Gallery, Winnipeg, Canada

1964 November - December: Eskimo Carvers of Keewatin, N.W.T., Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba (illustrated catalogue)

1967 Eskimo Sculpture, Winnipeg Art Gallery , presented at the Manitoba Legislative Building, Winnipeg, Manitoba (illustrated catalogue)

1971 Sculpture in Miniature, Canadian Guild of Crafts Quebec , Montreal, Quebec

1972 January - February: INUA: 50 Works from the Cappadocia Collection of Inuit Art McMaster Art Gallery Hamilton, Ontario

1972 January - March: Eskimo Fantastic Art Gallery 111, School of Art, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba (tour) (illustrated catalogue)

1972 February - March: Eskimo Sculpture: Selections from the Twomey Collection Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba (illustrated catalogue)

1973 December - 1974 January: Eskimo Sculpture (and Drawings) Waddington Galleries Montreal, Quebec (illustrated catalogue)

1974 Baker Lake Sculpture, Canadian Guild of Crafts Quebec, Montreal, Quebec

1974 Stone Sculpture of Baker Lake Eskimos, Pucker/Safrai Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A.

1974 Crafts from Arctic Canada/Artisanat de l'arctique canadien Canadian Eskimo Arts Council, Ottawa, Ontario (tour) (illustrated catalogue)

1974 March Baker Lake Sculpture, The Innuit Gallery of Eskimo Art, Toronto, Ontario (illustrated catalogue)

1977 June: Sheokju of Cape Dorset & Eleven Sculptors of Baker Lake, Victor Waddington Gallery, London, England (illustrated catalogue)

1978 March - June, The Coming and Going of the Shaman: Eskimo Shamanism and Art Winnipeg Art Gallery Winnipeg, Manitoba (illustrated catalogue)

1978 August - November: The Zazelenchuk Collection of Eskimo Art Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba (illustrated catalogue)

1979 January - June: Spirits and Dreams - Arts of the Inuit of Baker Lake, Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development, Ottawa, Ontario (tour) (illustrated brochure)

1979 November - December, In Celebration, Canadian Guild of Crafts Quebec, Montreal, Quebec

1980 April - May: Baker Lake - Drawings, Sculpture, Tapestries, Theo Waddington, Toronto, Ontario

1980 April - May: The Klamer Family Collection of Inuit Art from the Art Gallery of Ontario University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario (illustrated catalogue)

1980 September - October: La deesse inuite de la mer/The Inuit Sea Goddess, Musée des beaux-arts de Montreal, Montreal, Quebec (tour) (illustrated catalogue)

1981 September: The Year of the Bear, The Arctic Circle, Los Angeles, California, U.S.A.

1981 September: Exhibition and Sale of Musk-Oxen & Bears, Cottage Craft Gifts & Fine Arts Ltd., Calgary, Alberta

1981 September - October: The Jacqui and Morris Shumiatcher Collection of Inuit Art, Norman Mackenzie Art Gallery, University of Regina, Regina, Saskatchewan (illustrated catalogue)

1983: An Enduring Tradition II: Inuit Carving from the Northwest Territories, Inuit Gallery of Vancouver Vancouver, British Columbia (illustrated catalogue)

1984 June: Demons and Spirits and those who wrestled with them, The Arctic Circle, Los Angeles, California, U.S.A.

1984 November - December: Die Kunst aus der Arktis, Inuit Galerie, Mannheim, held at Humanities and Social Sciences Research Institute, University of Siegen at Villa Waldrich Siegen, Germany (illustrated catalogue)

1985 March - May: Uumajut: Animal Imagery in Inuit Art, Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba (illustrated catalogue)

1986 May - June: The Spirit of the Land, The Koffler Gallery, Toronto, Ontario (illustrated brochure)

1986 July - August: L'art et la Matiere: Peintures au sable de Claude Durand - Sculptures d'Art Esquimaux Conseil Municipal, Le Comite d'Animation Culturelle, Deauville-Touques, France

1986 July - August: Keewatin Sculpture: Reflections of the Spirit, Inuit Gallery of Vancouver, Vancouver, British Columbia (illustrated catalogue)

1986 July - 1988 February: Selections from the John and Mary Robertson Collection of Inuit Art, Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario (tour) (illustrated catalogue)

1987 September - November: The Swinton Collection of Inuit Art, Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba (illustrated catalogue)

1987 October "L'art inuit", Presented by l'Iglou Art Esquimau, Douai, at Chambre de Commerce de Chateauroux
France

1987 December - 1988 February: Inuk, Inuit: Art et tradition chez les esquimaux d'hier et d'aujourd'hui, presented by L'Iglou Art Esquimau, Douai, at Musée des Beaux-arts d'Arras, Arras, France (illustrated catalogue)

1988 March, Magic and Shamanism Artspace, Main/Access Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba

1988 March: Arctic Forms - Inuit Sculpture, Arctic Inuit Art Gallery, Richmond, Virginia, U.S.A.

1988 April: "L'art inuit", Presented by l'Iglou Art Esquimau, Douai, at Palais de L'Europe, Le Touquet, France

1988 June - September: Building on Strengths: New Inuit Art from the Collection, Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba

1988 June - September, The World Around Me, University of Lethbridge Art Gallery, Lethbridge, Alberta

1988 July: "L'art inuit", Presented by l'Iglou Art Esquimau, Douai, at Chapelle de la Visitation, Thonon, France

1988 October, Tundra & Ice: Stone Images of Animals and Man, presented by Orca Aart at the Adventurers' Club, Chicago, Illinois

1988 October, Inuit Legends in Stone Canadian Guild of Crafts Quebec, Montreal, Quebec (illustrated brochure)

1988 November: "L'art inuit", Presented by l'Iglou Art Esquimau, Douai , at Les Martres-de-Veyre, France

1988 December: "L'art inuit", Presented by l'Iglou Art Esquimau, Douai , at Galerie des Tanneurs, Mulhouse, France

1989 January: Cold Stones, Warm Hearts: Inuit Art from the Northwest Territories, University of Richmond, Richmond, Virginia, U.S.A.

1989 February: Arctic Images: Major Sculptures by Canada's Leading Contemporary Eskimo (Inuit) Artists at D/Erlien Fine Art Limited, presented by Orca Aart, Chicago, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, U.S.A.

1989 February - March, "L'art inuit", Presented by l'Iglou Art Esquimau, Douai, at St. Marcellin, France

1989 March - April: "L'art inuit", Presented by l'Iglou Art Esquimau, Douai, at Galerie Autre Regard, Paris, France

1989 March - April: "L'art inuit", Presented by l'Iglou Art Esquimau, Douai, at Palais de l'Europe, le Touquet, France

1989 June: Masters of the Arctic: An Exhibition of Contemporary Inuit Masterworks, Presented by the Amway Corporation at the United Nations General Assembly, New York, New York, U.S.A. (tour) (illustrated catalogue)

1989 June - July: Baker Lake Sculpture, The Upstairs Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba (illustrated catalogue)

1989 June - July: Art Inuit, Presented by l'Iglou Art Esquimau, Douai, at Galerie Sanguine, La Rochelle, France

1989 August: Art Inuit, la Sculpture des Esquimaux du Canada, Presented by l'Iglou Art Esquimau, Douai, at Chapelle de la Visitation, Thonon, France

1989 December, Art Inuit, la Sculpture des Esquimaux du Canada, Presented by l'Iglou Art Esquimau, Douai, at Les Chiroux, Centre Culturel de la Wallonie, Liège, Belgium

1990: Baker Lake, Inuit Gallery of Vancouver, Vancouver, British Columbia (illustrated catalogue)

1990 January: Art Inuit, la Sculpture des Esquimaux du Canada, Presented by l'Iglou Art Esquimau, Douai , at Centre d'Action Culturelle du Bassin, Houllier, Lorrain, Saint Avold, France

1990 February - March: Beeldhouwkunst van de Inuit (Canada), by l'Iglou Art Esquimau, Douai, France at Amphora Finippon pvba, Sint Andries, Brugge, Belgium

1990 March: Art Inuit, l'Art des Esquimaux du Canada, Presented by l'Iglou Art Esquimau, Douai at Maison Falleur, Cambrai, France

1990 June - July: Small Sculptures from across the Canadian Arctic, Feheley Fine Arts, Toronto, Ontario

1990 November: Inuit Masterworks Inuit Gallery of Vancouver, Vancouver, British Columbia (illustrated catalogue)

1990 November: Art Inuit, Galerie Saint Merri, Paris, France

1990 November - December: Art Inuit: Autour de la Collection de Cape, Dorset 1990, Presented by l'Iglou Art Esquimau, Douai, at Centre Culturel Canadien, Paris, France

1990 November - 1991 February: Espaces Inuit Maison Hamel-Bruneau, Ste-Foy, Quebec (illustrated catalogue)

1990 December - 1991 January: A Family Tradition: Inuit Art from Canada's Arctic, Presented by Arctic Inuit Art at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, Virginia, U.S.A.

1991 February: Animals of the Arctic, Arctic Inuit Art, Richmond, Virginia, U.S.A.

1991 February - June: Granville Island Canadian Inuit Sculpture Exhibition (first exhibition), Vancouver Inuit Art Society, Vancouver, British Columbia

1991 March - April: Art Inuit, Presented by l'Iglou Art Esquimau, Douai, at Le Theatre, La Ciotat, France

1991 April - June: Art Inuit, Presented by l'Iglou Art Esquimau, Douai, at Galerie La Tour des Cardinaux, L'Isle sur la Sorgue, France

1991 May - June: Art Inuit, Presented by l'Iglou Art Esquimau, Douai, at La Halle aux Bles, Saint Malo, France

1991 June - July: Art Inuit, Presented by l'Iglou Art Esquimau, Douai, at Galerie Ombre et Lumiere, Ensisheim, France

1991 June - September: Granville Island Canadian Inuit Sculpture Exhibition (second exhibition), Vancouver Inuit Art Society, Vancouver, British Columbia

1991 August - September: Art Inuit, Presented by l'Iglou Art Esquimau, Douai, at Galerie Akenaton, Troyes, France

1991 October - December: Art Inuit, Presented by l'Iglou Art Esquimau, Douai, at Galerie Maite Aubert, Le Havre, France

1991 November - December: Art Inuit: Autour de la Collection de Cape, Dorset 1991, Presented by l'Iglou Art Esquimau, Douai, at Le Colombier, Ville D'Avray, France

1991 November - December: Inuit Sculpture: Displayed in Conjunction with the 1991 Cape Dorset Annual Graphics Collection, Muscarelle Museum of Art, Williamsburg, Virginia, U.S.A.

1992 April - May: Salon International Europ'art '92, presented by Galerie Saint Merri, Geneva, Switzerland

1992 May - August: Hudson's Bay Company Collection of Inuit Art, Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba (illustrated brochure)

1992 June - October: Nouveau Territoires...350/500 ans après, Presented at les maisons de la culture Cote-des-Neiges, Notre-Dame-de-Grace, and Rosemont-Petite Patrie, Montreal Recreation and Community Development Service and les Ateliers Visions Planetaire, Montreal, Quebec (tour) (illustrated catalogue)

1992 October - 1993 January: Drawings and Sculpture from Baker Lake, Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba (illustrated brochure)

1993 April: The Art of Keewatin, Arctic Artistry, Hastings-on-Hudson, New York, U.S.A.

1993 November - December: The Treasured Monument, Marion Scott Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia (illustrated catalogue)

1993 November - 1994 March: The Inuit Imagination, Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba

1994 April - May: Mythic Image, Ancestral Spirits Gallery, Port Townsend, Washington, U.S.A.

1994 July: Arctic Spirit, 35 Years of Canadian Inuit Art, Frye Art Museum, Seattle, Washington, U.S.A.

1994 August - October: Inuit Art from the Canadian Arctic, Bayly Art Museum, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, U.S.A.

1994 September - October: Kunst van de Inuit Eskimo's, Gemeentelijk Kunstcentrum, Huis Hellemans, Edegem, Belgium (illustrated brochure)

1976 February: Stone Sculpture by Akkanashoonark of Baker Lake, The Innuit Gallery of Eskimo Art, Toronto, Ontario (illustrated brochure)

1979 January - February: Recent Sculpture by Barnabus Argrnasungaaq (Akkanashoonark) of Baker Lake, The Upstairs Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba (illustrated brochure)

1979 November - December: Barnabus Arnasungnaaq - Recent Sculpture, Gallery One, Toronto, Ontario (illustrated catalogue)

1981 March - April: Barnabus Akkanashoonark, Inuit Galerie, Mannheim, Germany (illustrated catalogue)

1992 June - July: Barnabus Akkanashoonark, Inuit Galerie, Mannheim, Germany (illustrated brochure)

Amway Environmental Foundation Collection, Ada, Michigan, U.S.A.
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Ontario
Dennos Museum Center, Northwestern Michigan College, Traverse City, Michigan, U.S.A.
Eskimo Museum, Churchill, Manitoba
Glenbow Museum, Calgary, Alberta
Inuit Cultural Institute, Rankin Inlet, Northwest Territories
Klamer Family Collection, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Ontario
Macmillan-Bloedel Limited, Vancouver, British Columbia
McMichael Canadian Art Collection, Kleinburg, Ontario
Museum of Anthropology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario
Prince of Wales Northern Heritage Centre, Yellowknife, Northwest Territories
Sarick Collection, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Ontario
University of Lethbridge Art Gallery, Lethbridge, Alberta
Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba

1964 Attended the opening of the exhibition 'Eskimo Carvers of Keewatin, N.W.T.', in Winnipeg.

1965 Participated in an experimental graphics workshop in Baker Lake (unpublished and uncatalogued).

1992 Barnabus attended a Baker Lake carving workshop led by David Ruben Piqtoukun.

MASTERS OF THE ARCTIC: An Exhibition of Contemporary Inuit Masterworks. Ada, Michigan: Amway Corporation, 1989.

Ayre, Robert: THIS NORTH VISION REMAINS AS VITAL. Montreal Star, October 18, 1969.

Blakeman, Evelyn: OMINGMAK: The Muskox. The Inuit Art Enthusiasts Newsletter, Issue 31, April, 1986.

Blodgett, Jean: SELECTIONS FROM THE JOHN AND MARY ROBERTSON COLLECTION OF INUIT
SCULPTURE. Kingston, Ont. : Queens University, The Agnes Etherington Art Centre, 1986.

Blodgett, Jean: THE COMING AND GOING OF THE SHAMAN: Eskimo Shamanism and Art. Winnipeg: Winnipeg Art Gallery, 1979.

Brandson, Lorraine E.: CARVED FROM THE LAND: The Eskimo Museum Collection. Churchill, Man.: Diocese of Churchill Hudson Bay, 1994.

Burgess, Helen: A TALENT TO CARVE. North, vol. 12, 2, March-April, 1965. pp.19-27. Reprinted: Ottawa: Queen's Printer, 1967, 1967.

Butler, K.J.: MY UNCLE WENT TO THE MOON: [Transcribed and edited by Kay Bridge.]. artscanada, vol. 30, nos. 5,6, December/January, 1973. pp.154-158.

Canadian Arctic Producers: BARNABUS ARNASUNGNAAQ: Recent Sculpture. Ottawa: Canadian Arctic Producers Cooperative Limited, 1979.

Driscoll, Bernadette: THE INUIT COLLECTION OF THE WINNIPEG ART GALLERY. Canadian Antiques & Art Review, vol. 2, no. 17, April, 1981. pp.36-41.

Driscoll, Bernadette: UUMAJUT: Animal Imagery in Inuit art. Winnipeg: Winnipeg Art Gallery, 1985.

Eakin, William and Jack Butler: PHOTOESSAY: BAKER LAKE 1983-84. Arts Manitoba, vol.3, no.4, Fall 1984, pp. 20-25.

Gagnon, Louis: ESPACES INUIT: Dessins et Sculpture. Sainte-Foy, Quebec: Maison Hamel-Bruneau, 1990.

Goo-Doyle, Ovilu: THREE BAKER LAKE ARTISTS COMMENT ON THE NEW JESSIE OONARK ARTS AND CRAFTS CENTRE. Inuit Art Quarterly: Vol. 8, No.1, Spring 1993, pp. 53-58.

Inuit Galerie: BARNABUS AKKANASHOONARK [SIC]. Mannheim, F.D.R.: Inuit Galerie, 1987.

Inuit Galerie: BARNABUS AKKANASHOONARK. Mannheim, Federal Republic of Germany: Inuit Galerie, 1981.

Inuit Gallery of Vancouver: BAKER LAKE. Vancouver, B.C. : Inuit Gallery of Vancouver [1990].

Inuit Gallery of Vancouver: INUIT MASTERWORKS: November 3-November 24, 1990. Vancouver, B.C.: Inuit Gallery of Vancouver, 1990.

Marion Scott Gallery: THE TREASURED MONUMENT: An Exhibition of Small-scale Inuit Sculpture. Vancouver: Marion Scott Gallery, 1993.

McMichael Canadian Collection: THE MCMICHAEL CANADIAN COLLECTION. Kleinberg: McMichael Canadian Collection, 1979.

Sanavik Cooperative: SCULPTURE 1974. Baker Lake: Sanavik Cooperative, 1974.

Seidelman, Harold and James Turner: THE INUIT IMAGINATION: Arctic Myth and Sculpture. Vancouver/Toronto: Douglas & McIntyre, 1993.

Swinton, George: ESKIMO FANTASTIC ART. Winnipeg: University of Manitoba. School of Art. Gallery 1 1 1, 1972.

Swinton, George: ESKIMO SCULPTURE. = SCULPTURE ESQUIMAUDE. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1965.

Swinton, George: SCULPTURE OF THE ESKIMO. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1972.

Vision Planetaire: NOUVEAUX TERRITOIRES: 350/500 ANS APRES: Une exposition d'art aborigene contemporain du Canada. Montreal: Vision Planetaire: Ville de Montreal: UNESCO, 1992.

Wight, Darlene: BUILDING ON STRENGTHS: New Inuit Art from the Collection. Tableau, vol. 1, no.5, 1988. p.4.

Wight, Darlene: SWINTON COLLECTION OF INUIT ART. The WAG Magazine, September/October, 1987. pp. 4-5.

Winnipeg Art Gallery: ESKIMO CARVERS OF KEEWATIN N.W.T. Winnipeg: The Winnipeg Art Gallery with the Department of Northern Affairs and National Resources, 1964.

Winnipeg Art Gallery: THE ZAZELENCHUK COLLECTION OF ESKIMO ART. Winnipeg: The Winnipeg Art Gallery, 1978.